The Elite Connection: Problems and Potential of Western Democracy. By Eva Etzioni-Halevy. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. 239p. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper
In: American political science review, Band 88, Heft 4, S. 1024-1025
ISSN: 1537-5943
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In: American political science review, Band 88, Heft 4, S. 1024-1025
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 45-65
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 45-66
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 325-326
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 169-183
ISSN: 0047-2697
Stable democratic regimes depend heavily on the 'consensual unity' of national elites. So Jong as elites remain disunified, political regimes are unstable, a condition which makes democratic transitions and democratic breakdowns merely temporary oscillations in the forms unstable regimes take. Disunity appears to be the generic condition of national elites, and disunity strongly tends to persist regardless of socioeconomic development and other changes in mass populations. The consensually unified elites that are necessary to stable democracies are created in only a few ways, two of the most important of which involve distinctive elite transformations. After elaborating this argument, we examine the relationship between elites and regimes in Western nation-states since they began to consolidate after 1500. We show that our approach makes good sense of the Western political record, that it does much to clarify prospects for stable democracies in developing societies today, and that it makes the increasingly elite-centered analysis of democratic transitions and breakdowns more systematic.
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In: Historical social research: HSR-Retrospective (HSR-Retro) = Historische Sozialforschung, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 245-268
ISSN: 2366-6846
"Stable democratic regimes depend heavily on the 'consensual unity' of national elites. So Jong as elites remain disunified, political regimes are unstable, a condition which makes democratic transitions and democratic breakdowns merely temporary oscillations in the forms unstable regimes take. Disunity appears to be the generic condition of national elites, and disunity strongly tends to persist regardless of socioeconomic development and other changes in mass populations. The consensually unified elites that are necessary to stable democracies are created in only a few ways, two of the most important of which involve distinctive elite transformations. After elaborating this argument, we examine the relationship between elites and regimes in Western nation-states since they began to consolidate after 1500. We show that our approach makes good sense of the Western political record, that it does much to clarify prospects for stable democracies in developing societies today, and that it makes the increasingly elite-centered analysis of democratic transitions and breakdowns more systematic." (author's abstract)
In: International politics, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 53-168
ISSN: 1384-5748
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In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 14, S. 1-162
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-24
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 25, S. 1-24
ISSN: 0047-2697